2.1.1 Course Outline

What are we going to do?

• 1 lectures on computer communications and networks and loosely coupled systems, revising material from the Multimedia Communications Technology course. The Postgraduate course will get an additional two hours in their seminar slot.
• 5 lectures on Remote Procedure Call, distributed objects and classic distributed systems such as NFS
• 3 lectures on integrating distributed systems through the web, content distribution networks and Peer to Peer computing.
• 5 lectures on closely coupled systems for distributed transactions
• 1 lecture on recent advances in networks and distributed systems